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Mr. Chery L. Shavers, Ph.D. has been the Chief Executive Officer of Global Smarts Inc., since February 2001. Dr. Shavers serves as the Chief Executive Officer of BitArts Labs. Dr. Shavers serves as a Director of Strategic Investments and Relationships for Media Tech Capital Partners. She served as Sector Manager of Microprocessor Products Group for Intel Corporation (Chip Maker) prior to April 1999. From November 1999 to February 2001, Dr. Shavers served as Under Secretary ... of Commerce for Technology at United States Department of Commerce, in which capacity she oversaw the Commerce Department's Technology Administration and the Office of Technology Policy, as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Technical Information Service, and the Office of Space Commercialization and after having served as its Under Secretary Designate from April 1999 to November 1999. Dr. Shavers served a variety of positions from 1987 to 1999 at Intel, including Director of Emerging Technology in the Microprocessor Sector Group at Intel Capital, where she led technology assessments of emerging technologies, structured strategic business alliances, and oversaw domestic and international equity investments and/or acquisitions of high-tech companies. She has more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry in various engineering and managerial positions at Fortune 500 companies such as Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and Intel Corporation. Dr. Shavers has been the Chairman of the Board of Global Smarts Inc. since February 2001. Dr. Shavers has been Non-Executive Chairman of BitArts Ltd. since 2001. Dr. Shavers serves as the Chairman of the Board of BitArts Labs. She has been an Independent Director of Rockwell Collins Inc. since September 2002. Dr. Shavers serves as a Director of BitArts Labs. Dr. Shavers served as a Director of ATMI Inc. from March 8, 2006 to April 30, 2014. She served as a Director of The Tech Museum of Innovation. Dr. Shavers is a practicing registeraed Patent Agent with the Patent & Trademark Office of the Department of Commerce. Dr. Shavers holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, a Ph.D in Solid State Chemistry, both from Arizona State University, and an Honorary Master's degree in Engineering Management from California Polytechnic State University.

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